A reader writes: “I’m a trans man who has been on T coming up on two years. I don’t have a sex drive. I got a slight taste of it for two weeks in the beginning, then it went away for a few months, then returned for two weeks again – but then went away [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender expectations’
Ask Matt: Low Sex Drive is Driving Me Up the Wall
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, health, hormones, masculinity, sex, testosterone, trans men on May 17, 2012 | 16 Comments »
Ask Matt: Transition and a Second Adolescence
Posted in Ask Matt, Observations, tagged gender expectations, hormones, identity, testosterone, transition on May 14, 2012 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I wonder how people feel about going through their second adolescence at a later stage in life than folks do naturally? I remember hearing a guy at an FTM meeting saying he did not wish to go through it in his thirties. I went through it (am still going through it?) in [...]
McDonald’s Happy Meals and Asking the Right Question
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged family, femininity, gender expectations, gender identity, gender roles, masculinity on March 29, 2012 | 27 Comments »
“Is the Happy Meal for a boy or a girl?” I had no idea that McDonald’s Happy Meals were gendered, but then I’ve never ordered one before this week. I’ve been suffering from a nasty bronchial thing, which I thought was improving but which then circled back on me. I still had to run some [...]
Book Excerpt: The World’s Smallest Penis
Posted in Teeny Weenies Excerpts, tagged being trans, bodies, books, gender expectations, masculinity, transition on March 26, 2012 | 8 Comments »
For the past three days, I have been on death’s doorstep, and it’s kinda scary because I think ze is making chocolate chip cookies and I can smell them from out here – very inviting! That’s a slight exaggeration (I hope), but I have, in fact, been quite sick. And no, it’s not because I [...]
Ask Matt: What are ‘Womanly’ Behaviors for a Trans Man?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged femininity, gender expectations, gender expression, masculinity, trans men on March 8, 2012 | 13 Comments »
A reader writes: “A comment on your most recent blog post about the transphobic bisexual woman got me (re)thinking about a timeless issue. “What does it mean (for a trans man) to act womanly or female-behaving? How does one know if they are effeminate or womanly? Is it the processing of emotions that female-assigned people [...]
Ask Matt: Reality Checks for a Son in Transition
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged assimilation, being out, bodies, gender expectations, gender identity, transition on March 5, 2012 | 19 Comments »
A reader writes: “Here is my question, which may or may not be written fully PC, so forgive me if it is not. My child is in the process of deciding about how far to take his gender change – and at age nineteen, is wisely not moving forward until he knows what he knows [...]
Ask Matt: Do Both Trans Men and Trans Women Prefer Female Partners?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged gender expectations, LGBT, relationships, sexual orientation on January 30, 2012 | 26 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a trans woman. Recently I have wondered why there seems to be a much greater percentage of trans women who seek relationships with women than trans men who seek relationships with other men. “Stephen Ira’s (Warren Beatty and Annette Bening’s son) story of having a boyfriend started me thinking. He is [...]
Trans People: Are We ‘Just Like You’?
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged assimilation, being trans, discrimination, gender expectations on January 26, 2012 | 23 Comments »
The “just like you” argument is about as old as time, dirt, and me. It probably emerged with the first person to be marginalized by a group in power, and there was likely enough of a difference between this person and that group that the group was able to justify shutting him or her out. [...]
Thin Mint Morality Wars: The Girl Scout Cookie Boycott
Posted in Commentary, Information, News, tagged discrimination, gender expectations, gender expression, gender identity on January 19, 2012 | 26 Comments »
Last year, I wrote a guest post for the excellent blog Womanist Musings called “Leave the Kids Out of It,” about a brouhaha over gendered Halloween costumes. Now we’ve got another situation where kids are being dragged into adult morality wars. The Girl Scout Cookie boycott, organized to protest the admission of a trans girl [...]
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Ask Matt: Trans Privacy vs. Airport Security
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, discrimination, gender expectations, gender expression, legal on April 19, 2012 | 18 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am curious to know of any experiences, negative or otherwise, you or your readers may have had with airport security in these times of full-body scans and/or pat-downs. “Those of us who are transgender may, thanks to hormones, convincingly appear to be the desired gender, but the full body scan or [...]
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